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How to Decorate a Pink and Green Nursery

A Fresh Color Scheme Is Just Right for Decorating a Baby's Room

Jan 22, 2009 Karen Perkins

Whether bright and vibrant or soft and traditional, decorating with pink and green creates a pretty space for a baby girl.

Like a new spring day, a pink and green nursery looks fresh, happy and inviting. A popular combination, the two hues offer a variety of style options. Depending on which shade of colors used, you can create a room to satisfy almost any style from casual cottage to vintage chic to 20th century modern.

A Hot Pink and Lime Green Nursery

When putting together a nursery, parents are sometimes stuck because new flooring is too expensive or a rental contract prohibits painting. If you are lucky enough to start with neutral walls and floors, however, think about hot pink and lime green as nursery décor. The bright colors pop against a bland backdrop. Work with blocks of color for maximum impact.

Mix-n-match bedding with stripes, solids, dots or flowers
Striped window treatments
Vibrant solid color baskets

If painting is an option, choose just one wall to saturate with color to serve as the focal point in the room. Paint a single color or use shades of both to create colorful stripes. Here are some paint choices to consider.

Sonic Boom (DC4B-40-5) Disney Colors by Behr
Friendly Frog (DC4C-50-3) Disney Colors by Behr
Tink Pink (DC2C-50-3) Disney Colors by Behr
Sleeping Beauty Pink (DC2C-30-3) Disney Colors by Behr

Light Pink and Green Nursery

A nursery with cottage style calls for lighter shades of pink and green such as rose and sage. The muted tones create a shabby chic feel and either color is a good choice for walls.

Sweet Taffy (2086-60) Pottery Barn Kids Colors by Benjamin Moore
Stem Green (2029-40) Pottery Barn Kids Colors by Benjamin Moore

If you have money in the budget, consider adding architecture to the room with white bead board wainscoting. A classic cottage choice, bead board frames a nursery decorated with pretty accessories such as

Floral-print bedding
A slip covered rocking chair or ruffled pillows for a family piece
An antique rug

Furniture for a Pink and Green Nursery

Whether you go light or bright, there is one element in the room that stays the same in a pink and green nursery – white furniture. The clean color is a classic cottage choice, which is perfect for soft shades. It also does not take away from bolder hues. Depending on your color scheme, however, different styles of white nursery furniture may look better.

Bright colors like hot pink and lime green work well with the streamlined shapes of modern furnishings.
Vintage-style pieces with simple silhouettes and delicate details look better with paler colors.

It does not matter whether it is fuchsia or salmon, lime or sea foam, a pink and green color scheme is a fantastic choice for a girl’s nursery.

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Lime green nursery wall